Genetic improvements of livestock is mainly depends on selective breeding of animal with its superior phenotypes. Identification and use of molecular markers for production and economical traits has been ensured the better health and productivity of cattle. Cytochrome P450, family 11, subfamily b, polypeptide 1 (CYP11B1) gene is a candidate affecting milk composition traits as adjacently locate...

the objective of this study was to compare six statistical methods for prediction of genomic breedingvalues for traits with different genetic architecture in term of gene effects distributions and number ofquantitative traits loci (qtls). a genome consisted of 500 bi-allelic single nucleotide polymorphism(snp) markers distributed over a chromosomes with 100 cm length was simulated. three differ...

background: indigenous chickens could serve as precious genetic resources that should be considered in conservation and breeding programs. the major histocompatibility complex (mhc) has a strong association to disease resistance/susceptibility, production and reproduction traits in chicken. therefore, identifying its polymorphism in populations under selective breeding could be used for selecti...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on high throughput SNP genotyping technologies open a broad avenue for exploring genes associated with milk production traits in dairy cattle. Motivated by pinpointing novel quantitative trait nucleotide (QTN) across Bos Taurus genome, the present study is to perform GWAS to identify genes affecting milk production traits using current state-of-the-a...

Selection of foreign sires involves risk when genetic values for breeding goal traits are unknown. Information to support objective selection decisions concerning foreign sires are confined to the information from Interbull=s routine evaluations for production and conformation traits. Functional traits are associated with efficiency of production by their direct influence on costs of production...

In Niger, the growth in local demand for milk and meat makes it necessary to consider genetic improvement of the indigenous cattle. At the Toukounous breeding station, the Azawak zebu has undergone over 50 years of line breeding for milk and meat production traits. To understand the adoption potential of improved Azawak sires in Niger, this study proposes to estimate the values that cattle keep...